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Cobretti2 on 08 June 2014
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NintendoPie said:
Cobretti2 said:
The NO GAMES argument is stupid at this point in the life cycle of the 3DS. It has plenty of games. After all why does it need NEW games? It is not like new gamers are suddenly go OH it has games coming out this year I will buy one. They will go to a shop and see that the 3DS has 30-40 games worth playing.

It is time to admit it smartphone and tablets are a huge problem to handhelds.

Also not to sound even more negative, but even though the 3DS has sold 60million units, how many of those are UNIQUE gamers? I got 6 x 3DS (3DS, 3DS XL, Zelda 3DS, Zelda 3DXL, Pokemon 3DXL and Yoshi 3DXL). Now if you check out my 'Show us your 3DS collection so far' thread, other people in there have multiple 3D's too. I know its anecdotal, but I would say a lot of the Nintendo core would have at least 2 x 3DS. In my opinion the actual UNIQUE install base is around 30-40million.

Now people will argue this happens with every console and in fact it does, however look at the vast range of 3DS options, i.e colours and the limited edition ones Nintendo have pumped out with 3DS, most gamers will want at least one of those in addition to their playing 3DS.

I agree the "no new games" argument isn't the best, but what follows that in your own post is just ridiculous.

Is that supposed to be a problem for Nintendo? And, if it is, then it was also a problem for the DS, the GameBoy Advance, the PSP, and the GameBoy Color/Original. 


Its not a problem for Nintendo as they sell extra hardware but rather gives a false sense of a userbase. What I am getting at is that mobiles and tablets have impacted far greater on handheld gaming then the sales suggest due to people buying multiple devices. As I said people use to do that in past gens to but have you seen how many limited edition 3DS' there are? it is at least 20-30 different ones across all the regions. I don't ever recall past gens have so many varieties for people to buy mulltiple ones because they either a zelda fan, a fire emblem fan, pokemon fan or mario fan etc...